commercium

commercium

1. A traditional academic feast, known and held at universities in most Central and Northern European countries.

• commircium
• conmercium

From con- (“together, with”) + merx (“merchandise”) or merces (“pay”) + -ium.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /komˈmer.ki.um/, [kɔmˈmɛr.ki.ũ]

commercium n (genitive commerciī); second declension

1. Trade, traffic, commerce, exchange.
2. (by extension) Intercourse, communication, correspondence, fellowship.
3. (metonymically) The right to trade as a merchant, mercantile right.
4. (metonymically) An article of trade; merchandise, wares.
5. (metonymically) A place of trade; marketplace.

Second declension.

• (commerce): mercātūra, mercātus
• (merchandise): merx
• (marketplace): forum

• commerciālis
• commercior

• mercālis
• merx

• commercium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• commercium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• commercium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• commercium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • intercourse of speech: commercium linguae
    
  • correspondence: epistularum commercium
    
  • interchange of ideas; conversation: commercium loquendi et audiendi
    
• commercium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• commercium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin